Tuesday, May 15, 2007

What is The Right Career for your Personality?

Your Career Personality: Detail-Oriented, Observant, and Hard-Working

Your Ideal Careers:

Designer
Family counselor
Independent store owner
Interior decorator
Museum curator
Nurse
Preschool teachers
Social worker
Stay at home parent
Teacher

I found this quiz over at Gibbons funschool so I played along. Glad I did, it's always good to know I made the right career choice. Check it out, see what is the right career for you? Then post it and let me know. here is the link to The Quick and Dirty Career Test

Monday, May 14, 2007

Little Man's 2 year Stats.

Today was not only Little Man's 2nd birthday but he also had his 2 year check up this afternoon. My Little Man truly is a "Little" man. LOL

At his check up today he weighted in at 24 pounds even and was 33 inches tall. They tell me that is the 6% for weight and the 13% for height. Mr Man use to be just a little guy also falling in those low percentiles but Now at 7 years old he is in the 95% so Little Man might not always be little so I'm not worried at all. I'll just sit back and enjoy my little baby(toddler) as long as he wants to stay little.

I mentioned in Little Man's birthday post that he was my biggest baby at birth, but now at 2 years old he is one of the smaller one of my kids..

Just for fun I grabbed everyone baby books to see where they were at 2 years old.. (yes I know dcrmom is LOL right now because I do this all the time and it is sort of become a joke with us that I do)

Princess at birth was 6 lbs 2 1/2 oz and 19 inches long at 1 years old she was 18 1/2 lbs and 28 1/2 inches and at her 2 year check up she was 26 lbs and 35
inches tall. Now at 11 years old she is 83 lbs and 5 foot tall.

Mr Man at birth 6 lbs 2 oz and 20 inches tall. At a year old was 19 lbs and 29 1/2 inches. At two years old was 26 1/2 lbs and 34 inches tall. He turned 7 years old in November and at that time was 70 lbs and 51 inches tall.

Sweet Pea at birth 6 lbs 3 oz and 19 1/2 inches, at 1 years old was 20 lbs and 27 3/4 inches. At 2 years old was 24 lbs even(the same as Little Man) and 32 inches tall(an inch shorter then Little Man) She turned 5 years old at the end of January and was 37 1/2 lbs (34%) and 42 inches tall(40%)

Little Man at birth was 7 lbs 9oz and 21 inches. AT one years old he was 19 lbs 6oz and 29 inches, Then in November when he was 18 months old he was 23 1/2 lbs(15%) and 31 1/2 inches which was 55%(so he use to be thin and tall LOL) Then today at 2 years old he was only 24 lbs(6%) and 33 inches tall(13%)

Now that I board you all with these fact, I'll say goodnight and let you all get back to blogging... :)

Little Man is Two Years Old Today

Two Years ago today Little Man came into this world... May 14, 2005 at 11:15am he was 7 lbs 9oz and 21 1/2 inches long.. This making him my biggest baby.(Princes was 6lbs 2 oz and 19 1/2 inches, Mr Man was 6 lbs 2 1/2 oz and 20 inches, and Sweet Pea was 6 lbs 3oz and 19 inches)
He had dark brown hair and big blue eyes, this top picture of him was when he was only one day old and the bottom one was shortly after he was born.. He was welcome into this world by doctors and nurses and he didn't get to meet daddy till 15 to 20 minutes after he was born and didn't get to meet mommy until he was 2 hours old.

you see after being in strong labour for 18 hours with him I was about ready to get to the pushing stage when my doctor thought he would break my water in order to get me there a little bit fast.. This was nothing new I had my water broke with both the girls.. ONLY right when they broke my water out came Little Mans cord. Next thing you know I felt the worst pain ever as the doctor had to go up and hold Little Mans off his cord and hold his cord open until they got the OR ready for my emergency c-section. I didn't have an IV in my arm and I didn't have any sort of pain medication at this point, which was a 1st for me.. Normally I had got the IV the moment I stepped foot into the hospital and was asking for the epidural not too long after that. ONLY this time I was at a different hospital, a birthing center with big whirl pools and showers in each room and I was using those for pain management and just hadn't felt the need for the IV or epidural.. BUT because of the fact I didn't have anything like that in me, when they took me to the OR for the emergency c-section they had to put me totally under, there was no time to give me the epidural or spinal so that I could have been awake, they needed to move fast because both my life and Little Mans life was at stake. So I missed my sons birth, and after labouring all night long and being knocked out cold I didn't wake up fulling until 2 hours after Little Man was born.
Honestly I think I would have slept alot longer except Little Man was very very hungry and screaming his head off. DH was telling the nurses just to give him a bottle of formula but thankfully the nurses knew from my birth plan paper work that I wanted to nurse him. So they were going to have me nurse him even if I was still dead to the world.. I woke up to a nurse trying to latch Little Man onto me.. Tell Ya What, I wasn't to friendly to that poor nurse.. LOL. I think I screamed at her "What are you doing". It tool a few minutes but I did wake up and was able to feed my baby but most of that 1st day is blurry to me.
The next Picture was Little Man at 3 weeks old
The next two he was 6 weeks old this was he first tub bathIn the next two he was 5 months old
Here is my smiling boy at 6 months oldJumping ahead 6 months to his 1st birthday party
Last summer, he was about 15 months old.Here he is in the Blizzard we had this past Febuary. Little Man was 21 months old.
22 months old, sitting in his new Thomas the Tank chair, watching a Thomas dvd. Last Month while on Spring Vacation. 23 months old.Today my baby boys turns Two years old..
Happy Birthday Rhett. Mommy Loves you very very very very much.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Menu Plan Monday(5/14/07)

Monday: Smoked Sausage, green beans, baked fries and Birthday cake for dessert(today is Little Man's 2nd birthday) we will do a little cake and ice cream and presents after Princess and Mr Man's ball practises.

Tuesday: Chicken, mac and cheese and corn

Wednesday: Spaghetti and meatballs garlic bread and a salad

Thursday: Salisbury steak, mash potatoes and green beans

Friday: Fish, tator tots and corn.

For more wonderful meal ideas check out the Organizing Junkie

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Spring Vacation Day 6 / thursday 13 #2

Thought for Thursday 13 this week I would show 13 pictures of our spring Vacation. These 13 shots were taken on Day 6 of our vacation 4/11/07.
It was our 1st day with sun while in Florida and it was our last day there also(or so we thought) We spent the whole day on the beach enjoying the sand, surf and sun. We all had such a blast. We also all ended up a tad on the red side when it was all said and done.
So there you have it how we spent day 6 of our vacation.
If you have missed Day 1-5 of our spring vacation and would like to see pictures or read about it just click here.
Too view all of the photos from Day 6 you can click here.
Sweet Pea and a friend she meet on the beach.
Mr Man body surfing
Princess and Mr Man
Mr Man getting ready to ride again.
Princess got really good at this.
Here is Sweet Pea again.

Sweet Pea and Little Man playing in the sand

Mr Man and Princess still riding those waves.

Little Man playing in the water
Sweet Pea with her board playing in the waves
one last shot of Sweet Pea which makes photo #13 on this Thursday :)


Let me know if you made a list of 13 things this Thursday. Have a Wonderful Day.

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Wordless Wednesday(5/9/07)

Easter bunny 4/7/07
For more Wordless Wednesday photos, click here or check out 5 minutes for mom

Monday, May 07, 2007

Menu Plan Monday(5/7/07)

Happy Monday everyone. Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.. Ours was alot of fun.. I'll share after I get our menu for the week typed out here..
We are looking at another busy week in our house. Tonight Mr Man has a baseball game, well scrimmage. Then tomorrow Princess is being honored at an educational meeting at the high school for taking 1st place not only in the county but also the tri-county Academic Challenge tournament. Then on Thursday Princess Drama Club is putting on there Play, and Saturday we are having Little Man's birthday party here at our house so I need to get the place company/party ready by then plus get the food and all that fun stuff. So busy week this week.. OH I also forgot about Princess softball practise

Monday: Brats on the grill and baked french fries

Tuesday: Fish and mac & cheese and fruit cocktail

Wednesday: Marvelous Mini Meatloaves mashed potato's. corn and garlic bread

Thursday Breaded chicken breast sandwiches and tator tots.

Friday Smoked sausage(we didn't eat this last week) rice and green beans.

for desserts DH wants blueberry muffins again but I don't know, maybe.. but we are going to have birthday cake on Saturday so I'm not sure if I"m going to do a dessert this week, If I do I might do ice cream sundays.

For more wonderful meal ideas and to view other menu plan Monday check out the Organizing Junkie

Now on to our weekend..

This weekend Princess had a softball tournament 2 plus hours East of here so instead of driving back and forth every day we found a state park five min. from the fields and we camped out this weekend.. It was fun.. but very cold at night.. the 1st night we woke up in the middle of the night cold and needing to bundle up more, but the 2nd night we were much more prepared for how cold it was going to get at night and slept in layers and also tossed the big rain tarp we have over the tent and tied that down which kept the wind from coming though the tent and it also kept the heat we had from the heaters we had going from escaping, so even though it was colder outside the 2nd night we stayed much warmer then we did the 1st.. The ball games were good also.. We didn't win any which sort of is a bummer, but we knew going in that we didn't really stand a chance. We took our community league team to a tournament against tournament teams.. The league team wanted to play in one of these big tournaments and DH and I tried to explain to the people that the level of play they would see is way beyond anything that the girls saw(Aubrie also plays on one of these big traveling tournament teams so she was use to it) but they didn't get what we were saying until after we started playing. It was good learning for the girls though, it was good to get a few games under there belts before the season started and it was good to show the girl the leave of play that is out there.. Aubrie herself had a wonderful weekend. she pitched 8 innings and in those innings struck out 17 batters and walked 2.. she did end up hitting 3 of them with the ball which she felt awful about but no one got hurt. She also did really well up to bat. 4 times at bat got 3 hits, 2 RBI's. One of her hits was a hard line drive right past the pitchers head went on just as hard past the 2nd baseman's head and landed out in the grass of center field.. Sweet Sweet Sweet hit.. she only got a single out of it but went on to steel 2nd, steel 3rd and steel home all while the batter after her was still up to bat.. just a very pretty play all around. I was a proud mama with her play this weekend.. Then I'm always proud of my baby's all the time anyways.. but even though we were losing I couldn't help but be happy and smile at how well Aubrie was doing.

Well I need to go shopping for birthday gifts and stuff for the party today so I need to go get the younger two dressed and ready to head out and be back before school lets out.. so I need to run..

Happy Monday everyone.

Friday, May 04, 2007

because I'm cool like that

I yelled at my best friends' boyfriend because I'm cool like that.


Yeah you all heard me right, LOL I'm just cool like that ;P

Just a little blogging fun. Melanie over at Our Happy Happenings wanted us all to join in this fun.. here is what you do.

Pick the month you were born.
Pick the day (number) you were born on.
Pick the color of shirt you are wearing.
Now type out the sentence you made using the answers below:

Pick the month you were born:
January----------I kicked
February--------I loved
March------------I punched
April---------------I swam with
May---------------I choked on
June---------------I murdered
July---------------- I did the Macarena with
August-----------I had lunch with
September------I danced with
October----------I sang to
November-------I yelled at
December-------I ran over

Pick the day (number) you were born on:
1----- --a birdbath
2-------a monster
3-------a phone
4-------a fork
5-------a Mexican
6-------a flamingo
7-------my cell phone
8-------my dog
9-------my best friends' boyfriend
10------my neighbor
11------my science teacher
2------a banana
13------a fireman
14------a stuffed animal
15------a goat
16------a pickle
17------a squirrel
18------a spoon
19------myself
20------a baseball bat
21------a ninja
22------a snowman
23------a noodle
24-- ----your mom
25------a football player
26------my sister
27------my brother
28------an ipod
29------a permanent marker
30------a llama
31------a zombie

Pick the color of shirt you are wearing:
White----------because I'm very pretty.
Black----------because that's how I play.
Pink------------because I'm cool like that.
Red-------------because the voices told me to.
Blue------------because I can see the future.
Green----------because I love to boogie.
Purple----------because your mom's cool.
Gray------------because the voices in my head told me to.
Yellow---------because someone offered me 1,000,000 dollars
Orange---------because I tripped over my house.
Brown----------because I love my pillow.
Other-----------because I'm a ninja.
None-----------because I can't control myself.

now ya'll go create yours and come back and comment so I can go smile more today..
Happy Friday.

Oh and for more fun I thought i would add sentences for the rest of my family also..

DH: I loved a stuffed animal because the voices in my head told me to.

Princess: I kicked a spoon because that's how I play.

Mr Man: I yelled at a goat because I'm very pretty

Sweet Pea: I kicked a permanent marker because I'm cool like that.

Little Man: I choked on a stuffed animal because I can't control myself.

Chinese Freeze Tag

Tina the Palm Tree Fanatic has tagged me to do this Chinese freeze tag.. My instructions to give 10 interesting facts about myself, stuff that the blogging world may not already know. This can be something shocking or anything, Then it tells me to Have fun :)

1) I am awful at keeping the house clean, Now all my family member are ROTFL(for some of them they don't know what that means, it is Rolling On the floor laughing) at me saying this and thinking, well tell us something we don't know.. I just don't like doing it and I have better ways to spend my time then walking around the house 24/7 picking it up.. because no matter how often I clean it when I turn around it looks the same way it did before I started.. So I pick up the main rooms of the house every day some times 3 or 4 times a day but chances are if you were to stop by my house there would still be dirty dishes in the sink, stuff stacked on the dinning room table(even if i cleared it off 3 other times that day) and clean laundry waiting to be folded in the living room, and toys spread out on the floor from one end of the house to the other.. I call this living with children.. and wanting to LIVE in my house not tip toe around it ;)

2) If I have a house plant no matter how much I try to care for it, It dies. Then only plant I have been able to keep around under my care is my aloe plant and that thing just won't die.. and trust me I have done my best to kill it, LOL. I never remember to water it even when it is sitting on my kitchen counter right there in front of my face.

3) I wouldn't know how to plant a flower if someone haded me them ready to go into the ground.. I know nothing about gardening at all. My DH takes care of all our outside yard work.. the only things I out in the yard I call "mine" are my rose bushes and they seem to care for themselves pretty much, I think i call those mine because I haven't killed them yet LOL.

4)I use to be a big reality TV junkie, I Loved me, my bachelor, dancing with the stars, American Idol, survivor, and so on.. this year I'm sick of reality TV even to the point that I haven't seen one show of American Idol and I don't know who is in it and whose not. There is only one Reality show that i still watch and that is Amazing Race.

5) Since my love for reality TV is a thing of the past I found myself being drawn back into the world of tv drama and the such.. The shows I watch now are
Desperate House Wives, Brother and Sisters, Prison Break, 24, Lost, Ugly Betty, Greys Anatomy, and October Road.

6) I don't watch any TV while the kids are home or awake, This means I tape everything and watch it whenever I'm home alone(be it they are gone or sleeping) This means I sometimes don't watch the stuff I tape for weeks. Right at this moment I have 7 hours of shows awaiting my viewing.. and I don't think it will be till next weekend that i get a chance to sit down and watch them and by that time I will have added another 7 hours to that.

7) I think I walked passed a fellow blogger yesterday, shaggabear. But since I'm not a daily reader or commenter on her blog I didn't think she would know who I was so I didn't walk up and say anything to her.. I thought she would look at me like who in the world is this crazy women if I was to walk up and just start talking to her.. LOL Plus I wasn't expecting to see her at my oldest DD school so it sort of threw me for a few seconds also and I couldn't think of anything to say anyways..

8) hummmmmm more interesting facts.. Hummm think think think... Oh ok.. I got my 1st real kiss when I was 15 1/2 years old. The boy was 18 or 19 years old.. It was my best friends Brother.. (Note to self don't let the girls spend the night with there friends who has older brother LOL) I was spending the night at my friends house there parents had went to bed and me and my friend, her older sister and older brother had blankets and pillows in the living room and was all watching movies all night long the older sister fell asleep and then my friend fell asleep and it was me and her brother just hanging out as friends watching more and more movies.. until I said I was getting sleepy and he said yeah I need to go to bed I have to get up early to work.. Next thing you know he is leaning over and kissing me, It was a nice kiss.. very good for my 1st kiss and not having a clue what I was doing.. Then he said goodnight. I said good night he went to his room.. and in the morning he was long gone to work and I had gone home before he came home from work.. a week later he left for the service and that was the end of that.. Sort of funny.. I never saw him or spoke to him again after that kiss, until after he came home from the service and he brought a wife home with him.. LOL well they weren't married yet but was getting married shortly after he came home.

9) I didn't really wait around for this 1st kiss guy or pine or anything like that, it was just a kiss LOL.. shortly after that like a month I had another boyfriend.. but He was an awful kisser LOL.. so I tried to avoid that kissing stuff with him.. and a few months after that I had set my sights on DH.. and 10 months after my 1st kiss I was going out with DH and Let me tell you, he is a wonderful kisser.. (see I'm throwing this information in as the shocking stuff, you know all the information my mother doesn't care to know if she is reading this LOL)

10) ok one more.. I need one more interesting fact to share with the blogging world that I haven't yet.. Ok how about this one.. when DH and I were dating we use to talk about getting married all the time, we talked about how we wanted a big family with like 6 to 8 kids.. and we even named the 1st 5 or 6 of them.. Then we got married and we are only having 4 kids and we didn't use a single one of the names we had picked out.. I can't remember all the names we had picked out, but the 1st boy was going to be Corbin Michael and the 2nd was going to be Colten James. If Princess would have been a boy she would have been Corbin Michael.. but by she wasn't.

There ya go 10 things about me, I don't know how interesting they were but there they are none the less.
I''m not going to tag anyone this time around since I won't have time to read them this weekend.. So whoever wants to play along feel free and let me know if you did..

Spring Vacation Day #5

We are up to day #5 of our Spring Vacation 2007. Day # 5 was Tuesday April 10, 2007. This was our 1st full day at Daytona Beach Flroida. The weather was to be nicer this day then it was when we got there on monday. It went up into the 70's but it was very cloudy and didn't really feel to warm when the wind would blow and it was a windy day.
We woke up this morning around 7:30am and put on the kids bathing suits with cloths over top of them and while we were waiting for DH to wake up me and the kids spent some time just taking in the morning air and the wonderful view of the ocean from out on our balcony.. The above pix is of Princess that morning.

This next shot was all 4 of the kids waiting to head down stairs to breakfest. The hotel had a really wonderful continantal breakfest every morning.. I couldn't get enough of the raisen bagles with cream cheese on them.. I ate way to many of them LOL on this trip.

After breakfest the kids wanted to hit the beach but it was still really chilli so we loaded up the van and took a drive to the light house where we spent an hour or so because the kids found a play ground while at the light house.
Here is Princess, Mr Man and Sweet Pea, but if you look back behind them at the swings you will also see me and Little Man. Yes I was getting onto the swing :) then i put Little Man on my lap and we had fun LOL.. Princess, Sweet Pea and Mr Man took turns suffing on the teeter tooter. In this pic Mr Man was just starting to stand up.. on it.. but they all took there turn standing and balancing in the middle. Below is closer shot of Little Man while at the playground.
After we left the play ground the kids were still bagging to go swimming but it was still a bit cold, so we drove around to find a store where we could stock up on some stuff for the hotel room, some junk food to snack on, come pop and bottled waters to drink and so on. We also wanted to pick up bread and Lunch Meat so we could do those for lunches insteed of having to keep dragging the kids out for meals.. Then we found it a super walmart center.. I should buy stock in those places I tell ya.. I'm always running to one all the time and always comeing out with more then I went in for.. This time I got all the grocery items I needed, plus new sandles for Mr Man, a necklace and nail polish for Sweet Pea, Another sand toy for Little Man, A beach chair for me, an extra set of flip flops for Princess, and 2 boogie boards, for Mr Man and Princess. We also picked up chicken and jojos from there deil for lunch seeing as we spent so much time there and was getting hungry. So we left went back to the hotel room and had lunch. Then we hit the beach.. It was cold IMO but that didn't seem to stop Princess and MR Man from running into that water and using there boards. Didn't stop Sweet Pea either.. I did get into the water and road a wave or two on Princess board, but once you got out of the water and the wind would blow I was freezing so I got myself dried off and didn't go back in the water(well up to my knees but didn't get all the way in the water) the rest of the day.
I just spent the time on the beach building sandcastels with Sweet pea and Little ManNot Princess or Mr Man though they spent 6 1/2 hours out there before we brought them in to shower up and go to dinner.(yes it was a very late dinner)durning that 6 hours out there Little man played both in the sand and in the water and he loved it.. he took a late nap that day, but he slept well. I took him up to the room while DH stayed on the beach and i got him to sleep, then once he was asleep and I knew he would be that way for a bit I stepped out on the balcany and waved DH up to stay in the room with him.. This seemed to work well, I got a break from watching kids for a bit and so did he.. and we also took time on the beach.. Team work I tell ya.. :)This shot of the 3 older kids was taken from inside our hotel room looking out our window. The kids were outside on the balcony.. It was after I got them showered and dress to go get dinner.
After we got back from eatting.. we walked on the beach some and then came back to the room and got ready for bed and I think everyone even myself was out by 10pm this is very odd for me seeing how i"m a night owl and normally don't go to bed till 1am.. but after spending all day on the beach chaseing Little Man even I was was whipped and ready for sleep. And that is how we spent day 5 of our spring vacation.

I'm going away for the weekend, so Spring vacation day #6 won't be ready to read till late sunday night or sometime on Monday.. So you all have a wonderful weekend.

If you have missed any of my earlier spring vacation post you can find links for them all here

and as always if you would like to view all the photos from Day 5 of our vacation you can click here.

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Day #4 of our Spring Vacation(also a tiny correction to last weeks Thursday thirteen)

Day #4 of our Spring Vacation. April 9 2007 . This day was spent mostly driving in the van from Pigeon Forge TN to Daytona Beach Florida.
We woke up really early again, just like we did when we left home and drove down to TN. We were on the road heading south at 4am we got to Florida around Noon and to our hotel around 1:30/2pm.. THE SUNSHINE STATE as the sign above says was not very sunny it was in the 50's cloudy and raining.. Not exactly what i had in mind for my beach trip, which I had been wanting to take for the last 11 years.
This shot was taken from the Van as we were getting ready to drive from the main land over the bridge to the beach area of Dayton Beach. This was DH and the kids first time ever to Florida and also there first time ever to see an ocean in real life. It sort of bummed all of us out that it was so cold and it was raining. We had only planned to stay on the beach 3 days and this 1st day was a waist as far as sunning and swimming went. And the next day they were only calling for it to be in the high 60's low 70's.. But we made the best of it.
After the long 9 1/2 hour car trip and unloading the van into our hotel room and then eating dinner and waiting for the rain to pass we threw on our jackets and went and played on the beach..
We grabbed the sand buckets and figured even if we couldn't swim who said we couldn't play in the sand. here is a shot of Sweet Pea, the purple bucket was her Easter basket I mentioned in Day #3 post #1 about Easter. Here is Mr Man, he was chasing sea gals in this shot.Here is Princess playing in the sand.. I think she was writing her name in the sand with her feet.. ONLY high tide was moving in and it didn't last very long.As the tide moved in these two just had to go out in the water.. they were pretty much soaked by the time we went into the room for the night. while these two just played in the sand.

Little Man was having a blast. He kept me moving, oh my goodness I was running after him like crazy that first day.. I guess being tied down into a carseat for 9 1/2 hours and then getting left loose can do that to a 22 1/2 month old(that is how old he was then he will be 2 years old May 14) You will see alot of pictures of me running after him if you view my online photo album from this day.. I'll post a link to it here in a minute.

After playing on the beach and bathing all the kids and trying to get all the sand out of there cloths.. We called it an early night everyone was tired from traveling and waking up at 3:30am that morning anyways..

My next post of our Spring Vacation will hopefully come on Friday.

If you have missed Day #1, Day #2 or Day #3 part 1, #3 part 2 or #3 part 3 you can click on the day you missed and it will take you to that post..

If you wish to view all the photos from Day #4 our 1st day in Florida you can view them here.

Last week on Thursday I played for the 1st time in the Thursday Thirteen, Click here to view that post. I didn't get around to that this week because I wanted to post this post.. but my DH pointed out to me that I needed to add a State to my list and that is Georgia.. I forgot we had to drive though Georgia to get into Florida.. I guess I wanted to forget it because that would have put my list to 14 not 13 ;) so I thought I would correct that mistake LOL..

Have a wonderful Thursday.